Volume 25 · Issue 3

Winter 1991/1992

Six Illustrations by Stothard

Alexander S. Gourlay

In his thorough review of Shelley M. Bennett’s Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of
Art Patronage in England circa 1800 (Blake 23 [1989]: 205-09) G. E. Bentley, Jr.
invited readers to send in any addenda to his addenda to Bennett’s list of Stothard
illustrations. An edition of The Tatler: with Illustrations and Notes contains what are
probably the six illustrations for an “unknown author and title . . . For Rivington” in Bennett’s list
under the year 1785 (67). The six plates, one in each of six volumes, are inscribed “Publish’d Decr. 1st
1785 by J Rivington & Son’s St. Pauls Church Yard London. for the Proprietor’s,” and were engraved
by Heath, Collyer, and Cook. The place of each in the text is marked at the top of the plate. The book itself
was published in London in 1786 by a long list of parties, beginning with “C. Bathhurst” and including
both Rivington and Joseph Johnson along with 23 others. Robert N. Essick notes in a private letter that the
subjects of these plates are described in A. C. Coxhead’s Thomas Stothard, R. A. (London:
A. H. Bullen, [1906] 172-73); he suggests that Coxhead was working from extracted plates in the Balmanno
Collection, British Museum.

Print Edition

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Department of English, University of Rochester

Rochester, NY, USA

Editors

Morris Eaves

Morton D. Paley

Bibliographer

Detlef W. Dörrbecker

Review Editor

Nelson Hilton

Associate Editor for Great Britain

David Worrall

Managing Editor

Patricia Neill

Contributors

Robert N. Essick

Eugenie R. Freed

Alexander S. Gourlay

David Groves

Christopher Heppner

Jenijoy La Belle

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